Back in 1873 Edward Ryan, a fiery Irish radical who rose to the position of chief justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, while speaking to University of Wisconsin students in 1873 said:
“There is looming up a dark new power. . . . The enterprises of the country are aggregating vast corporate combinations of unexampled capital, boldly marking, not for economic conquest only, but for political power ··· money is taking the field of organized power. The question will arise, and arise in your day though perhaps not fully in mine: ‘Which shall rule–wealth or man? Which shall lead–money or intellect? Who shall fill public stations–educated and patriotic free men, or the feudal serfs of corporate wealth?’”
Two generations later the unfortunate answers to these questions have become self evident. We the people have given up most, if not all, of our rights and freedoms to a socio-economic-political system that puts our destinies into the hands of the money-mongers and power brokers. The new question of the day is what are we going to do about it? Egypt and others in the Middle East have shown us that there is still power in the people. But is there the will in America today? The answers to these questions will shape the world of our children and grandchildren.
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Choices – Are we too Late?
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Back in 1873 Edward Ryan, a fiery Irish radical who rose to the position of chief justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, while speaking to University of Wisconsin students in 1873 said:
“There is looming up a dark new power. . . . The enterprises of the country are aggregating vast corporate combinations of unexampled capital, boldly marking, not for economic conquest only, but for political power ··· money is taking the field of organized power. The question will arise, and arise in your day though perhaps not fully in mine: ‘Which shall rule–wealth or man? Which shall lead–money or intellect? Who shall fill public stations–educated and patriotic free men, or the feudal serfs of corporate wealth?’”
Two generations later the unfortunate answers to these questions have become self evident. We the people have given up most, if not all, of our rights and freedoms to a socio-economic-political system that puts our destinies into the hands of the money-mongers and power brokers. The new question of the day is what are we going to do about it? Egypt and others in the Middle East have shown us that there is still power in the people. But is there the will in America today? The answers to these questions will shape the world of our children and grandchildren.
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